Folding bed.



L. E. PITTONI.

FOLDING BED.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 9, 1912.

1,090,340. Patented Mar. 17,1914.

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UNTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS EDWARD PI'ITONI, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO NEW YORK COUCH BED COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

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To all LU/71.0772 it 771 try concern Be it known that I, LOUIS Enwano PM- Tom, a subject of the King of Italy, residing at New York city, borough of iiffanhat an, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Beds, of which the following specification and accompanying drawings illustrate the invention in a form which I now regard as the best out of the various forms in which it may be embodied.

Figure 1. is an end view of my folding bed in its couch or single-bed form; Fig. 2 shows the same with the parts in an intermediate position, and Fig. 3 shows the same in its extended or double-bed form.

My invention consists in an improvement of a well. known form of folding bed shown in the patentof Sishowcr No. 954, 18 of April 5, 1910. In that bed there is a main frame wherein there is pivoted an axis extending longitudinally and midway of the bed a frame which is completely reversible so that the mattress thereon may lie on top of the frame or may depend from the under side thereof. To one edge of the said reversible frame is hinged a second frame which is non-reversible but capable of moving laterally with respect to the main frame and thereby overturning the reversible frame so as to either lie parallel therewith to form therewith a double bed, or on top thereof to form a single bed or couch. In such a construction one point of criticism has been that the laterally movable frame rests at its outer edge on the floor, having on that edge legs provided with icasters which roll on the floor as the frame is moving inward or outward with respect to the main frame.

The purpose of my present invention is to so construct a bed of the form ust described that the laterally moving frame need not roll on the floor in passing from one of its positions to ,the other and to that end I interpose between said laterally moving frame and the main frame a set of parallel links which will maintain the laterally moving frame horizontally and cause it, when it moves inward, to lift from the floor and fol low the are of a circle descending into its closed position above the reversible frame. Conversely, when it moves outward, it will, in like manner, lift bodily and hori- Patented Mar. 17, 1914.

Serial No. 689,482.

zontally and descend into its open position alongside of the reversible frame.

Referring to the drawings, C represents the main frame, which is here shown as having end pieces (of which that at one end only is shown in the drawing, the on i at the opposite end being a duplicate thereof) each formed of a steel tube 1, with side bars 2, 2 connecting the end pieces at the respective ends of the bed. Near the top of the end piece is a cross bar 3 of angle iron to the center of which, at P, is pivoted the reversible frame A. To the end bar 5 of this frame is attached the projection 7 that is pivoted at P to the main frame. By means of this projection 7 the reversible frame stands at a much higher level when it is right side up, as shown in Fig. 3. than when it is upside down, as it is in Fig. 1. On the left hand side of the reversible frame A the end bars 5 are connected by a (lQPI'OSSOd side bar shown at 6, while on the right hand side they are connected by an angle form of side bar on the same level as the end bars 5.

The laterally moving frame is shown at B, its end bars being shown at 8 and connected on one side by a depressed side bar 9 similar to the aforesaid depressed side bar 6. On the opposite side, the frame is provided with legs 10 which rest on the floor and support that side of the frame both in the closed and in the open position. The frames A and B are hinged together at 4 by means of depending projections from their respective end bars 5 and 8. Between the laterally movable frame B and the main frame C I insert two parallel links X and X pivoted to the respective frames at the same distance apart on each frame. Thus the link X is pivoted to the right end of bar 8 on frame B and to the center of bar 8 on frame 0, viz. at the point P which is also the pivotal point of frame A. The link X is pivoted to the left hand end of said bar 3 and to the center of said bar 8. The latter link is also prolonged to form an operating handle which, when the bed is in its open position as shown in Fig. 3 is engaged by a hook 14 to prevent the dropping of the right hand side of reversible frame A under the weight of a person in the bed, the left hand side of that frame being upheld. by a lug 18 which rests on the upper side of a stop 18 on frame C.

Assuming the bed to be in the open position, then, in order to close it, the handle of link X will be released from hook 14- and turned upward as shown in Fig. 2. The frame B will thereby be lifted clear of the floor while maintaining its horizontal position and will at the same time swing inward toward the main frame until it descends directly over the main frame as shown in Fig. 1. The reversible frame A will at the same time be overturned from its right-sideup position in Fig. 3 to its upside-clown position in Fig. 1. In the latter position its right hand side is prevented from dropping under the weight of a person in the bed by the engagement of lug 18 with the under side of the aforesaid stop 18 on frame C. To open the bed the operations just described are merely reversed.

The aforesaid operation is in general the same as that in the Sisbower bed above referred to, but in my arrangement the laterally movable frame B is lifted bodily from the floor during both the opening and closing movements whereas in Sisbowers arrangement the legs 10 of that frame roll on the floor toward or from the main frame, tending thereby to drag with them any rug or carpet on which they may happen to bear and also to mar and wear the floor or its covering. This objectionable tendency is avoided by my construction.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A folding bed comprising a stationary frame having transverse end bars, a reversible frame having each end provided with a central depending lug that is pivoted to the said end bars, a laterally movable frame having one side hinged to one side of the reversible frame, links connecting the corners of the hinged side of the laterally mov- Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. (3."

able frame to the pivotal points of connec-" tion of the reversible frame and the stationary frame, and links pivoted to the centers of the ends of the laterally movable frame and having ends pivotally connected to the adjacent corners of the stationary frame, the last mentioned links being in parallel relation to the first mentioned links and being elongated to form operating levers.

2. A folding bed comprising a stationary frame, a. reversible frame centrally pivoted to the ends of the stationary frame, a laterally movable frame having one side hinged to one side of the reversible frame, links connecting the corners of the hinged side of the laterally movable frame to the centers of the ends of the stationary frame, and a sec end set of links parallel with the first mentioned links and having intermediate connections with the centers of the ends of the; laterally movable frame and end connections with adjacent corners of the stationary frame.

3. A folding bed comprising a stationary" frame having transverse end bars, a rest carried by each end bar adjacent one end there of, a reversible frame pivotally connected to the stationary frame and having end lugs that engage said rests when the reversible frame is in its normal and its reversed positions, a laterally movable frame hinged to the reversible frame, and link connections between the laterally movable. frame and the stationary frame.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, before two subscribing witnesses, this 6th day of April, 1912.

LOUIS EDl/VARD PITTONI. Witnesses:

LAURA '1. SHAW ERISMAN, W'ALLAOE O. DECKER. 

